Reaches

Examples

• From this space it reaches the outer air by a valve at the bottom of the outer vessel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Massive, symmetrical and harmonious, its highest point reaches 307? feet above the plaza on the east. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• For the same reason a burning match may be held without discomfort until the flame almost reaches the hand. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Really, it's like one of the reaches of the Nile--as one imagines the Nile. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It reaches to every nation of Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Now it is attended from the day of its planting until it reaches the lips of the consumer by contrivances of consummate skill to fit it for its destined purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As it reaches its full size it _matures_, it begins to produce young, which are either born alive or hatched from eggs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The Muhammadan merchant, tinman, shoemaker, or vendor of trifles sits cross-legged on the floor and reaches after any article you may want to buy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He reaches around and bites my legs too. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A rope that hangs from the centre of the top touches the wall before it reaches the bottom. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And this schedule reaches out into the shipping and mailing departments, so arranging it that the first copies off the press are speeded to the far sections of the country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The valve rod that admits steam has a quick drop, or fall, to cut off the live steam before the piston reaches the end of its stroke. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Sound travels very quickly through the air, traversing ten hundred and ninety feet in a second, but it reaches forty-seven hundred feet away under water in the same time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• To recur to our simple example, a child who reaches for a bright light gets burned. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The illustrations show some of the steps necessary before the iron reaches the shipping room. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He unconsciously, from the motivation of his occupation, reaches out for all relevant information, and holds to it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Only the red ray passes through the red glass, reaches the eye, and produces a sensation of color. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When this motion reaches the ear, it sets the drum of the ear into vibration, and these vibrations are in turn transmitted to the auditory nerves, which interpret the motion as sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The air which reaches halls and rooms is therefore warm, in spite of its long journey from the cellar. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Bayou Baxter, as it reaches lower land, begins to spread out and disappears entirely in a cypress swamp before it reaches the Macon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It won't be long before it reaches you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• His intellect reaches no standard I can esteem: there is a second stumbling-block. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Come back to us before the Pestilence reaches you and lays you dead like the rest! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• II Two more events remain to be added to the chain before it reaches fairly from the outset of the story to the close. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A married woman grabs at her baby; an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• At other times we recognize that there is a delay; for example, thunder reaches our ears after the lightning which caused the thunder has completely disappeared. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• All the water which reaches the well pipes will have filtered through the soil bed and therefore will probably be safe. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As the string is pulled down, the flag rises and ultimately reaches the desired position. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Should Athelstane of Coningsburgh obtain the prize, Ivanhoe is like to hear evil tidings when he reaches England. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

Typist: Psyche